The childhood home of legendary Texas baseball player Nolan Ryan is up for sale in Alvin. The house where the Ryan Express grew up and learned how to pitch would make a great treasure for any Texas sports fanatic.

It's just under 1,200 square feet and comes with a one-car garage, four bedrooms, a full bathroom and a half bathroom. The home was built in 1955, according to the listing. It still has the original refinished hard wood floors, which survived the fire.

Ryan showed "Sports Illustrated" the home as a part of a sprawling 1986 profile the magazine wrote about him.

"That's our street, Dezso Drive," he told writer Ron Fimrite, "Just the other side of that Jesus sign—this is Baptist country—and I was raised in that little house there. My mom still lives in it."

April 13, 1980: On this day, the Chronicle reported that MLB's first million-dollar-a-year player, Nolan Ryan, had hit a three-run homer in his first game as a Houston Astro. Tweet host Michael Callahan, @MCallahanTV!

Media: Houston Chronicle

It is a modest home and no one would know how significant it is to the very history of the town that that surrounds it.